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Comment Re:Who could have foreseen it? (Score 1) 421

Obama and the Democrats can raise taxes just as high as they like. What the sheeple that voted for them do not realize is that when they raise it 10% the middle class and poor will be paying that, not corporations and not the rich. You can play the raise the tax game all you want that gets immediately pushed into loss of work hours, layoffs, price increases, offshoring etc.

This is really the case in a bad economy with already poor employment numbers and ample people willing to work anything that comes their way.

Comment Re:The first rule (Score 1) 245

Certainly and we all have seen this but it is extremely rare. Not long ago we had a junior guy on one of my teams that kept messing up a certain task thus labeled a idiot. So I pulled him aside and we went over the task and created a method for him to follow that would ensure success. He started using this and from that day forward he performed it without fail.

Comment The first rule (Score 4, Insightful) 245

I have been in IT for nearly 25 years now and have learned a few things along the way. The first rule is that most employees referring to others as idiots, turkeys, incompetent etc need to look first in their own seat.

It is generally a reaction I expect from a dev or sysadmin covering his own faults by passing blame to others. I find most people just want to do what they where hired to do and do it well and given the proper chance and assistance will do just that.

In the last 5 - 10 years though it is generally a result of understaffing and insane deadlines causing less than desired results.

Comment Re:Great idea (Score 1) 63

Hey no need for attacks, and far from unemployed and far from being a small gamer company. Hey I am not knocking scala if you want to write in it go ahead. I am just saying it does not exactly have a long proven history as of yet. Just like I love node.js it is bad ass, however I would hesitate to run it in a critical production system as I have experienced instability with it. Just sayin I tend to play it a bit safer when it comes to production work.

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